260, Lot: 519. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aurelian. AD 270-275. Antoninianus (22mm, 3.80 g, 5h). Serdica mint, 1st officina. 3rd emission, AD 272. Radiate and cuirassed bust right; cuirass decorated (see note) / Aurelian standing right, holding scepter, receiving globe from Jupiter standing left; P. RIC V 260; BN 999 (same obv. die); MIR 47, 243m, H(2)1 (same obv. die). Good VF, brown patina, some silvering, light roughness.

The cuirass decoration is variously described. To this cataloger it looks like Aurelian standing left erecting a trophy, with a bust to the left (Vabalathus?)